I just completed the inking for the wrap-around cover of Namesake book 1 (Hardcover edition). Holy crappola, let me tell you guys, I thought my hand was going to fall off. I’m proud of the result though. Yeeeah!

Your amount of detail never ceases to amaze me. You really make wonderful use of hatching and creative ways of using lines. I have to ask you, I've been meaning to for a while, how do you get your ink scans so clean? I always find if I work with ink and scan it, the work looks sloppy and I have to adjust the hell out of it to get the correct darkness. Yours is smooth and there's no loss in clarity even with the small lines such as the hatching on the clothes.

I use some pretty amazing brush pens (pentel brand) who give out a nice clean finish. I do some manipulating in photoshop using the levels and the clarity functions to keep it clean. I also erase out the smudges. I don't usually have that many, but in this piece I had three. I also learned recently, by changing scanners, that the quality of the scanner does have an impact on the work...